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government finally acknowledging dangers of fluoride
Friday November 17th 2006, 11:00 am
Filed under: children's health, paradigm shift, toxins abound, water

Finally, the Centers for Disease Control and the American Dental Association are starting to admit — after more than a half century of denials — that ingesting fluoride is harmful to babies. (It’s harmful to adults, too, but we’ll take whatever we can get at this point.)

The following is from the Organic Consumers Association:

Now, the Centers for Disease Control reports that modern science shows that fluoride absorbs into enamel topically. However, adverse effects occur upon ingestion. Further, the CDC admits enamel fluoride concentration is not inversely related to cavities.

This is a big deal. The CDC has admitted that topical use of fluoride is “effective” at achieving fluoride levels on tooth enamel, making fluoride in the water pointless. Moreover, and this is the key, the CDC is admitting that the amount of fluoride on your teeth is NOT inversely related to cavites, meaning that fluoride doesn’t necessarily ward off tooth decay.

To prevent tooth damage, the American Dental Association (ADA) warned its members that fluoridated water should not be mixed into concentrated formula or foods intended for babies one year and younger, in a November 9th ADA e-mail alert.

“But who will alert parents,” asks lawyer Paul Beeber, President, New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation, Inc. (NYSCOF).

Two-thirds of U.S. public water suppliers add fluoride chemicals, based on a disproved theory that fluoride ingestion prevents cavities. Bottled water with added fluoride is now sold with specific instructions to mix into infant formula.
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The Environmental Protection Agency is required to consider the most vulnerable populations when setting allowable water fluoride levels. To protect babies, allowable water fluoride levels must be near zero.

The Environmental Working Group analyzed government data in March 2006 and found that babies are over-exposed to fluoride in most major U.S. cities.

“This should end water fluoridation,” says Beeber. “Fluoridation is a failed concept that must be abandoned before more Americans are harmed,” says Beeber.

ban fluoride from your life
Friday October 06th 2006, 7:47 am
Filed under: "health" care, children's health, toxins abound, water

Okay, I know, your dentist says fluoride is good for you, helps prevent tooth decay, and so forth, and it’s even added to baby water (so-called nursery water) for Pete’s sake. But it’s poison, no joke. The fluoride added to our water is actually a hazardous waste byproduct of fetilizer production. I’m being completely serious.

Earlier this year the National Academy of Sciences said that the EPA’s upper limit for fluoride content in drinking water is not safe. This is from a Wall Street Journal article (March 23, 2006):

The [NAS] report concluded that children exposed to four milligrams of fluoride per liter, the highest allowable level, risk developing severe dental fluorosis, in which teeth become mottled, pitted and scarred. Because fluoride can weaken bones, people who consume water containing that much fluoride are likely to be at increased risk for bone fractures.

Only about 200,000 people in the U.S. live in places where the fluoride levels are at least that high, and those levels of fluoride are usually from naturally occurring sources such as rock and soil formations. However, and this is a big however, we get fluoride from many other sources in our daily lives and thus the average American can easily surpass that upper limit. We certainly don’t need it chemically added to our water, too.

In addition to water and toothpaste, there are also concentrations of fluoride in tea, especially instant tea — which far exceeds the EPA limit, which is itself unsafe. Hot dogs, mechanically separated meats (pretty much anything processed) and canned and fresh fish also contain fluoride.

Many, many pharmaceuticals are actually fluoride compounds. Take Cipro, for example, which is a fluorinated quinolone, belonging to a class of fluorinated antibiotics, which also include enoxacin, fleroxacin, temafloxacin, grepafloxacin, norfloxacin, sparfloxacin, tosufloxacin, lomefloxacin and ofloxacin. All of these contain dangerous levels of fluoride.

There is also fluoride in the air, especially around heavy industry. Welders are known to get arthritis because they breathe it while working. Essentially, fluoride accumulates in their joints.

There are budding movements all over the country to stop adding chemical waste to our drinking water supplies. Citizens for Safe Drinking Water is on of them and has a great site. The Fluoride Action Network is another resource and grassroots group.

This mp3 audio interview with Dr. David Kennedy, a dentist, on the dangers of fluoride. It is excellent and worth listening to in the background while you’re working at your desk.

It’s worth noting that the vast majority of water filtration systems don’t remove fluoride. The only one I know of that does is reverse osmosis. You can buy a system for under your sink for less than $200. I have not done so yet, so every week I bring about three dozen glass 16 oz. bottles to the grocery store and buy their reverse-osmosis filtered water for $0.39/gallon. It’s much cheaper than bottled water (which usually has fluoride too, although not in the amounts that tap water does), leaves a smaller footprint on the environment and allows me to avoid plastic containers as much as possible. This is a subject for another day, but plastic leaches phthalate, a known endocrine disruptor.

Fluoride, by the way, is also a known endocrine disruptor — it is extremely harmful to the thyroid, which is part of the system that, among other things, helps us manage our weight. Our endocrine system is pretty much responsible for regulating just about everything in our bodies. Our endocrine system helps regulate our sleep and wake cycles, our moods, our metabolism. Yet a lot of the pharmaceuticals we take for impairments of those very systems are themselves full of fluoride.

Sometimes I wonder if this madness will ever stop…

Now, the Centers for Disease Control reports that modern science shows that fluoride absorbs into enamel topically. However, adverse effects occur upon ingestion. Further, the CDC admits enamel fluoride concentration is not inversely related to cavities.

This is a big deal. The CDC has admitted that topical use of fluoride is “effective” at achieving fluoride levels on tooth enamel, making fluoride in the water pointless. Moreover, and this is the key, the CDC is admitting that the amount of fluoride on your teeth is NOT inversely related to cavites, meaning that fluoride doesn’t necessarily ward off tooth decay.